And many many more. The good ol' way that music is produced is dying, sigh...

First I want to say.... You should start playing the lottery although you may have just used up all your luck. Second I just want to say: Your a bastard Third: You may notice that I am a tad bit jelous. Congrats on the great score. And the really great compressors.

I have 2 CL-1As. Someone said something regarding one being hand wired. I thought they simply put the tubes on the inside on the 'B' to protect them, as opposed to the 'A''s tubes being on the outside. (I learn something every day). I thought they were both hand wired.
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The circuit and functions are exactly the same. The amplifier section in the CL 1A is hardwired. In the CL 1B the transformers and the tubes were brought into the unit and placed on a printed circuit board. The control circuit is on a PCB in both units.

It looks like the traffos are totally different, Caps are Mallory and it's Point-to-point to me in the "A" version.

haha dude why are you replying to a 12 year old post? not sure if these guys care anymore, appears to be from the era in gs when more pros were participating, or at least seems to be. in any case since this has been ressurected, i’ve been looking at getting one of these cl1b & wanted to know for those experienced with it if they would consider this a versatile unit. i.e. other than vocal duties, any opinions on cl1b on guitars, keys, percussion drums etc?

haha dude why are you replying to a 12 year old post? not sure if these guys care anymore, appears to be from the era in gs when more pros were participating, or at least seems to be. in any case since this has been ressurected, i’ve been looking at getting one of these cl1b & wanted to know for those experienced with it if they would consider this a versatile unit. i.e. other than vocal duties, any opinions on cl1b on guitars, keys, percussion drums etc?

I think you landed here of the same reason as i did...

And by the way you just answered your own question

P.S. I feel like a medic rescuing the digits around the www that are worth to be saved.

haha dude why are you replying to a 12 year old post? not sure if these guys care anymore, appears to be from the era in gs when more pros were participating, or at least seems to be. in any case since this has been ressurected, i’ve been looking at getting one of these cl1b & wanted to know for those experienced with it if they would consider this a versatile unit. i.e. other than vocal duties, any opinions on cl1b on guitars, keys, percussion drums etc?

I’ve used a CL1A for a few years now. Sounds fantastic on just about anything. I’d consider it versatile for an optical compressor. You not going to get smashed drums, but you can get bouncy with it. Between manual mode, fixed (10:1 fixed is amazing), and the dual release fixed/man mode it has a few envelopes to choose from.